Fraud acquisitions and interchange dominated the top 10 list of news articles posted to DigitalTransactionsnet in 2018 Starting with a 62 billion pact between Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc on one hand and defendant banks on the other stemming from 13-year-old litigation over credit card interchange to American Express Cos announcement it would shave its discount rate the top 10 list highlights the centrality of pricing Other top stories looked at ways to grow revenue such as the payoff acquirers earned from boosting their integrated payments efforts and how surcharging may aid merchant acceptance of payment cards Read the list of the top 10 DigitalTransactionsnet posts from 2018 No 10 A 62 Billion Pact May Be Only a Prelude to Difficult Haggling Ahead for Merchants And the Card Networks No 9 No 8 N0 7 Krogers Foods Co Lobs a Grenade at Visa in the Ongoing Guerrilla War Over Card-Acceptance Costs No 6 No 5 No 4 Heartland Accuses Former CEO Carr of Giving Girlfriend Money for Improper Stock Purchase Carr Calls It a Smear Campaign No 3 No 2 No 1